Margit Neubauer

Mezzo-soprano

Margit Neubauer joined the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt in 1977, and was named Kammersängerin in 1993. During the 2014/15 season she performed the role of Anhilte in concert performances of Kálmán's Die Csárdásfürstin/The Gypsy Princess and is the Chief Warder in the first ever performances in Frankfurt of Mieczysław Weinberg's Die Passagierin/The (female) Passenger. She has appeared as a guest at many other theatres, including the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Hamburg State Opera, Zurich Opera, in Amsterdam, Jerusalem, Los Angeles and the Bayreuth and Salzburg festivals. Directors and conductors with whom she has worked have included Harry Kupfer, Ruth Berghaus, Hans Neuenfels, Herbert Wenicke, Peter Mussbach and Alfred Kirchner, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Michael Gielen, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Lorin Maazel and Sylvain Cambreling. Margit Neubauer sang many, diverse, roles during the course of her long and successful career, among them Sesto (Giulio Cesare in Egitto), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Idamante (Idomeneo), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Emilia (Otello), Adriano (Rienzi), Flosshilde (Ring), Bizet's Carmen, Niklaus (The Tales of Hoffmann), Dalila (Samson and Dalila), Anna (The Trojans), Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Brigitte (Die tote Stadt/The Dead City) and the Gymnast / Wardrobe Master / Groom (Lulu). She also took part in the world premiere of John Cage's Europeras 1 & 2 and has recently been involved in events in the annual Frankfurt liest ein Buch/Frankfurt Reads a Book series.